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Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:25 am  

Nothus wrote:

You can't just 'let somebody go', Purtell would be quite within his right to demand we buy out the remainder of his contract. And let's face it, nobody will be making an offer for the bloke, we're stuck with him.

This always comes up though. Whenever anyone is perceived to be ' not very good' or 'rubbish', they cry goes up that we should "let them go" or more succinctly "get rid". Truth is, the ones we will be able to "let go" are the ones someone else will want to take.

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:37 am  

If both Gale and Sammut go who's our 7? Addy? Obrien? Henry? Losing Gale and Purtell better for the balance of the squad, but realistically Purtell would find a 10% wage cut a small price to pay for the chance of proving he can make a contribution, and get another contract. The comments from the directors sounded like they were asking for voluntary redundancies, which is a mixed blessing, I would guess Sammut was at the front of the queue.
On the debt reduction, I havent seen anything about OK demanding his money back from the club over and above any agreed repayment terms, so it looks as if the £400k is to break-even including any debt servicing/repayment.

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:42 am  

martinwildbull wrote:

If both Gale and Sammut go who's our 7? Addy? Obrien? Henry?

Club said if anyone leaves, they would replace them, albeit with someone on a lower wage. So if both Gale & Sammut left, I would assume we'd have our eye on a replacement half, just of lesser quality than Sammut. Having Gaskell with one of the above just doesn't work.

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:43 am  

Perhaps Kearney will move into the halves and one of Kear or Foster to full-back?

I'd also take a look at a loan (Gareth O'Brien?) or a Championship player.

FWIW I think Kearney and Gaskell would be an awful half-back partnership.

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:00 am  

hindle xiii wrote:

Perhaps Kearney will move into the halves and one of Kear or Foster to full-back?

I'd also take a look at a loan (Gareth O'Brien?) or a Championship player.

FWIW I think Kearney and Gaskell would be an awful half-back partnership.

I agree, although i think Kear is probably our best player under the high ball. Kearney into the halves for a couple of games won't hurt but not as our first team choice, i think Addy would be further up the list to play there over Kearney?

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:03 pm  

are there any ex academy and now fringe SL scrum halves needing time on the pitch we could loan?

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:25 pm  

I guess the suggestions for Cutting £400,000 from the OP is because, raising revenue is extremely difficult. If it was easy then the previous regimes would have done so.

Also raising revenue whilst possibly losing better players and sliding down the league table would take some pretty good talking from those attracting sponsors.

There are so many clubs teetering on the brink, yet we still have calls to raise the salary cap to match the NRL. To me that would just see the clubs who are doing well financially overspending too and leaving the league on very shakey ground.

I still think the salary cap should be replaced with a break even cap. But maybe that's a topic for somewhere else.

I do hope all the clubs struggling can find their way back to solvency.

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:47 pm  

Salary caps only work if the clubs raise enough revenue to pay the salaries, what should be in place is a ceiling that clubs can pay up to as long as they have the income ie a max of 50% spent on players. Income should not include any loans that are repayable or funds secured against assets.....

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Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 2:19 pm  

pie.warrior wrote:

Salary caps only work if the clubs raise enough revenue to pay the salaries, what should be in place is a ceiling that clubs can pay up to as long as they have the income ie a max of 50% spent on players. Income should not include any loans that are repayable or funds secured against assets.....

That, or something on those lines, is what we used to have when the cap was first brought in. Back then, saving clubs from themselves was higher on the agenda, but we have to assume it was the clubs who wanted this safety net removing?

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 2:34 pm  

For starters how about cutting back on all those match day stewards that seem to have been "set on" under the OK regime? i'm told they get 30 quid a game, 30 less would 900 quid a game (please don't tell me we need them for health and safety reasons)

The merchandising is massive this season, lets hope the Bulls sell thousands of replica shirts. Maybe a deal with Asda to stock up with Bulls merchandise in all their stores in the Bradford area?

As for the playing staff, i really do we hope we do not lose any of the current squad, especially Sammut, didnt he recently tweet he was going no where?